1785 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1785 Events from the year 1785 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Ilay Campbell Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas of Arniston Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming Events 7 March – geologist James Hutton proposes the theory of uniformitarianism to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.James Hutton Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 2 209–304 http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/hutton/hutton.htm 1788 2011-10-12 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20030729055405/http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Hutton/Hutton.htm 29 July 2003 dmy The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon Oxford 2nd 1999 1-85986-000-1 Late September – James Boswell’s The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides is published.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/337 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 2005 0-304-35730-8 337 5 October – flight by Florentine aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi in a gas balloon from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh, across the Firth of Forth to Ceres, Fife (32 mi (51.5 km) in 1.5 hrs).Notable Dates in History http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2016-01-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm 25 January 2016 dead dmy-all 23 November – Lunardi flies from St Andrew's Square, Glasgow, to Hawick.Vincenzo Lunardi An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland https://archive.org/details/anaccountfiveae00lunagoog London 1786 Births 18 May – John Wilson, writer (died 1854) 18 November – David Wilkie, painter (died at sea 1841) Deaths 23 January – Matthew Stewart, mathematician (born 1717) 4 October – Alexander Runciman, painter (born 1736) 23 October – William Cochran, painter (born 1738) The arts 22 May – Robert Burns' first child, Elizabeth ("Dear-bought Bess"), is born to his mother's servant, Elizabeth Patonhttp://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/PatonElizabeth.705.shtml Paton, Elizabeth The Burns Encyclopedia 2014-01-28 and his poems "To a Mouse" and "Halloween" are written. Scotland References collapsed Category:Years of the 18th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1780s in Scotland Scotland